This 1999 Digital Camera Uses Tiny Clik Disks! Agfa CL30
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Date: 2023-08-26
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fanjoy
Interesting seeing that CF cards went on to be a popular option for camreas until probably around 2013-2015 when other media types like XQD and now CFExpress and CFast have taken over for storage media for cameras. Of course back in the day the Click and Zip disks were ahead of their time as CD burners were way too expensive for most people (costing 500+ for a CD burner) plus disks were about 1 per disk or more, and they were write-once options. Of course all of this got replaced by Flash memory and flash drives in the 2000's+.
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Interesting seeing that CF cards went on to be a popular option for camreas until probably around 2013-2015 when other media types like XQD and now CFExpress and CFast have taken over for storage media for cameras. Of course back in the day the Click and Zip disks were ahead of their time as CD burners were way too expensive for most people (costing 500+ for a CD burner) plus disks were about 1 per disk or more, and they were write-once options. Of course all of this got replaced by Flash memory and flash drives in the 2000's+.
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ejonesss
it may be that the bilinear/bicubic scaler at the time was some proprietary tecnology that agfa would have to license and pass costs to customers or would require more cpu power and draw on batteries even more.
agfa was already paying iomega for a license to use clik drives and disks and to pay more for a proper scaler maybe a problem.
does the onscreen display of the lcd show up on the video out mode?
can you connect the video out to a tv and view the display? because you could replace the lcd with a tv monitor?
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it may be that the bilinear/bicubic scaler at the time was some proprietary tecnology that agfa would have to license and pass costs to customers or would require more cpu power and draw on batteries even more.
agfa was already paying iomega for a license to use clik drives and disks and to pay more for a proper scaler maybe a problem.
does the onscreen display of the lcd show up on the video out mode?
can you connect the video out to a tv and view the display? because you could replace the lcd with a tv monitor?
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Glass. Cannon
I remember being awfully suspicious of the quality of digital photography back in the 1990s and early 2000s. I continued to use disposable film cameras (not they were much better) until I got my first cellphone with a camera. Then I jumped into professional photography and learned (1) that digital photography had improved drastically (but film is still better. don't me bro, and (2) my suspicions were correct back in the 90s to early 2000s.
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I remember being awfully suspicious of the quality of digital photography back in the 1990s and early 2000s. I continued to use disposable film cameras (not they were much better) until I got my first cellphone with a camera. Then I jumped into professional photography and learned (1) that digital photography had improved drastically (but film is still better. don't me bro, and (2) my suspicions were correct back in the 90s to early 2000s.
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Maarkaus
I worked at a tech store around that time and used to sell them. I always thought they were neat. I could see it was an outlier for tech however, as other media were catching on fast.
Even back then Canon and HP were far ahead of the competition. Sony had come out with its memory-stick too, if I remember. So many different options to go with.
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I worked at a tech store around that time and used to sell them. I always thought they were neat. I could see it was an outlier for tech however, as other media were catching on fast.
Even back then Canon and HP were far ahead of the competition. Sony had come out with its memory-stick too, if I remember. So many different options to go with.
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Science
. good idea. horrible implementation. There wss actually earlier cameras that had a 2. 5 floppy type disk with 12mb of space, but they was never made generic.
We had one in school. The drive was just like a normal floppy but smallet and faster. Probobly due to the higher capacity.
The irony of it is that that model was from 1994.
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. good idea. horrible implementation. There wss actually earlier cameras that had a 2. 5 floppy type disk with 12mb of space, but they was never made generic.
We had one in school. The drive was just like a normal floppy but smallet and faster. Probobly due to the higher capacity.
The irony of it is that that model was from 1994.
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Andrew
That was an interesting video to me. I did consider importing a Clik from the US to the UK but decided against it. I have a number of the Agfa branded cameras including the 1280 and 1680 which are another interesting - only from the 1990's - range of cameras. I can't say that their quality has ever left me wowed.
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That was an interesting video to me. I did consider importing a Clik from the US to the UK but decided against it. I have a number of the Agfa branded cameras including the 1280 and 1680 which are another interesting - only from the 1990's - range of cameras. I can't say that their quality has ever left me wowed.
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Amaruq's
Couldn't be much more of a coincidence that one of them simply just takes photos, and the rest of its functionality is dead. Then the other one, while the display and the other gubbins are still working, it doesn't do the only job it's supposed to.
Perhaps you can probably Frankenstein them both together.
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Couldn't be much more of a coincidence that one of them simply just takes photos, and the rest of its functionality is dead. Then the other one, while the display and the other gubbins are still working, it doesn't do the only job it's supposed to.
Perhaps you can probably Frankenstein them both together.
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Jared
I have been rewatching a lot of lgr videos lately and when this one popped up I just thought it was an old video about a digital camera I've seen a few times already but decided to watch it again anyways. Then I realized all the comments are really recent, like within a few minutes recent lol.
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I have been rewatching a lot of lgr videos lately and when this one popped up I just thought it was an old video about a digital camera I've seen a few times already but decided to watch it again anyways. Then I realized all the comments are really recent, like within a few minutes recent lol.
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VWestlife
Pretty much any company involved in imaging (film cameras, printers, copiers, etc) tried selling digital cameras in the late '90s. HP, Epson, Kyocera, Ricoh, Konica, etc. Most of them gave up on it in the mid-2000s due to it being a highly competitive market with slim profit margins.
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Pretty much any company involved in imaging (film cameras, printers, copiers, etc) tried selling digital cameras in the late '90s. HP, Epson, Kyocera, Ricoh, Konica, etc. Most of them gave up on it in the mid-2000s due to it being a highly competitive market with slim profit margins.
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Kinomora
OH MY GOD I did NOT know that you live in/near Asheville. I use to live there years ago and it's where I grew up; I thought your images felt eerily familial until I saw the Bear statue all too familiar of downtown Hendersonville and the Mellow Mushroom in Asheville. Neat!
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OH MY GOD I did NOT know that you live in/near Asheville. I use to live there years ago and it's where I grew up; I thought your images felt eerily familial until I saw the Bear statue all too familiar of downtown Hendersonville and the Mellow Mushroom in Asheville. Neat!
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The
Always good to see an old IBM ThinkPad in any video.
Anyways, my family just used the old film camera up until about 2005 when we got our first digital camera, a Canon PowerShot SD400 which it still works perfectly today other than needing a replacement battery.
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Always good to see an old IBM ThinkPad in any video.
Anyways, my family just used the old film camera up until about 2005 when we got our first digital camera, a Canon PowerShot SD400 which it still works perfectly today other than needing a replacement battery.
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virtuserable
Living through the media format wars was so fun and it was so satisfying to use these and similar storage. things. SD cards / USB drives are superior in all ways but I wish we'd see something new that clunks in place / beeps / whirs when you use it.
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Living through the media format wars was so fun and it was so satisfying to use these and similar storage. things. SD cards / USB drives are superior in all ways but I wish we'd see something new that clunks in place / beeps / whirs when you use it.
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DatFMEntertainment
Did you try to use it as a drive, though? Probably at least works better than the portable drive previously because it s USB, I hope, though given how long it takes to store a photo I have to wonder what it s even doing to take that long.
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Did you try to use it as a drive, though? Probably at least works better than the portable drive previously because it s USB, I hope, though given how long it takes to store a photo I have to wonder what it s even doing to take that long.
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Demonic
Sees the design on the clik disks
That looks uber familiar. but I never had one. Why is that?
Sees they made the Zip Disks
That's why. I have (or had. no clue where they are now) loads of them. Same with a few Super Disks too.
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Sees the design on the clik disks
That looks uber familiar. but I never had one. Why is that?
Sees they made the Zip Disks
That's why. I have (or had. no clue where they are now) loads of them. Same with a few Super Disks too.
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Skyhawk
I remember when my dad purchased an Agfa ePhoto Smile. That thing was an utterly useless piece of landfill material, from the very moment we got it.
As the cherry on top, it took like half-a-dozen photos on a set of double-A batteries.
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I remember when my dad purchased an Agfa ePhoto Smile. That thing was an utterly useless piece of landfill material, from the very moment we got it.
As the cherry on top, it took like half-a-dozen photos on a set of double-A batteries.
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Luke
I had the Polaroid PDC 1100 as a kid and I loved it. It ate batteries and took 20-30 minutes to transfer a dozen photos over serial, but it was magic. Emailing a photo or two on a trip, dialing up from a hotel landline on my Compaq laptop.
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I had the Polaroid PDC 1100 as a kid and I loved it. It ate batteries and took 20-30 minutes to transfer a dozen photos over serial, but it was magic. Emailing a photo or two on a trip, dialing up from a hotel landline on my Compaq laptop.
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seoulpurpose
10: 56 not only do I get the pleasant surprise of a Saturday morning LGR drop, but I get a glimpse of a 4th gen Accord, too?
Cars are like computers, in that there's always a special place in your heart for your first.
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10: 56 not only do I get the pleasant surprise of a Saturday morning LGR drop, but I get a glimpse of a 4th gen Accord, too?
Cars are like computers, in that there's always a special place in your heart for your first.
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ProSteel
500 for this camera seems insane even back then. I got my Sony Mavica FD90 in 1999 for like 100 more, and it was a way nicer than this thing. Plus it would probably still work because they actually had good build quality.
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500 for this camera seems insane even back then. I got my Sony Mavica FD90 in 1999 for like 100 more, and it was a way nicer than this thing. Plus it would probably still work because they actually had good build quality.
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Stephanie
It s 11pm on a Saturday night. Of course I have nothing better to do than watch this.
But, seriously, love LGR. Thanks for your videos Clint!
ETA: since we're taking world roll call, good evening from Sydney
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It s 11pm on a Saturday night. Of course I have nothing better to do than watch this.
But, seriously, love LGR. Thanks for your videos Clint!
ETA: since we're taking world roll call, good evening from Sydney
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